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RESTAURANTS: Big Wong's, 67 Mott Street, between Bayard and Canal Streets (964-0540): The name means big prosperity, though that's the last thing you'd expect this Chinatown eatery to be called. Almost everything on the menu costs under $5, and patrons eat cafeteria-style in a dense, tantalizing cloud of odors from the bustling kitchen. The soy sauce chicken ($5) and the barbecued spare ribs ($3) are as good as any in Chinatown...
...Mott Street in Little Italy, Manhattan's newest locus of hip, is where modish factions of the young professional class gather in cafes to talk about movies starring Steve Buscemi and to chain-smoke as though it were Milan or 1956. Mott Street is, in other words, a place you might envision as fashion's capital of spartan black. On a northern tip, though, sits a tiny 1 1/2-year-old shop named Calypso, where, on any given weekend, stylish young shoppers slither past one another to get at a collection of near-sheer pastel sweaters, lacy skirts, candy-colored coats...
This morning I went to Mott Hall, a school in Harlem, and met with sixth-graders who are using laptop computers. You have to see to believe how laptops have brought the classroom to life. I then went to the New York Public Library for a question-and-answer session with TV interviewer Charlie Rose...
...other serendipitous ways, laptops have altered the character of schools and their students that use them. At Mott Hall, Gordon says that since receiving their laptops last year, her sixth-graders "have become much more mature and articulate. They use those things the way adults use them." They even volunteer, she says, to do extra homework. Students at the Cincinnati Country Day School have set up round-the-clock tech-help desks in the hallways, assisting schoolmates in fixing crashed hard drives and finding lost files. And no one is more enthusiastic about laptop learning than parents; in communities like...
...soon to tell whether laptops will become classroom fixtures (like calculators) or fads (whatever happened to Trapper Keepers?). But the legions of the faithful are growing. At Mott Hall, many of the sixth-graders have adoringly given their computers nicknames. Jose Ramirez, shy and bespectacled, struggled to fit in with his classmates before the arrival of laptops. Since then he's become something of a sage. On this afternoon, he's floating among the different groups in the classroom, peering at the work on their screens, shooting down technical troubles. "It's more fun for me now with my classmates...